This session takes place above the Adriatic Sea: and that perspective matters. Because HR, like the sea below us, is deep infrastructure. You can skim the surface with tools and features, or you can design for depth. Over the past decade, Microsoft has quietly built one of the most powerful HR technology ecosystems available: Dynamics 365 Human Resources, Power Platform, Microsoft 365, Teams, Viva, LinkedIn, and now Copilot. Most organisations use fragments of it. Very few understand it as a system. This session brings the whole picture together. We’ll look at HR not as an application, but as an enterprise architecture layer: one that shapes automation, analytics, AI, security, governance, and decision-making across the organisation. From core HR data models and implementation realities, to Power Platform extensibility, collaboration patterns, People Analytics, and AI scenarios that actually work in production. From this vantage point, we’ll explore: - how HR architecture connects Dynamics 365, Power Platform, Microsoft 365, and AI into a coherent whole - where native HR capabilities end — and where intentional design must begin - how structured HR data enables Copilot, chat-based insights, analytics, and modern recruiting scenarios - why governance, security, and integration are not constraints, but accelerators - how HR professionals and IT teams can finally speak the same architectural language This is not a beginner session. And it’s not a demo. It’s a guided walkthrough of the thinking behind real HR solutions: the kind that survive scale, compliance, change, and human complexity. Looking out over the Adriatic, we’ll talk about systems that flow, structures that hold, and why HR - more than any other domain - demands both technical precision and human understanding. You’ll leave with a clear framework, a shared vocabulary, and a renewed sense of what the Microsoft HR ecosystem can become when it’s designed intentionally - end to end. Some sessions teach tools. This one teaches how to see the system. And it happens at the edge.